Driving in Houston *could* be getting better soon.

Mexico says it’s awaiting a new response from Google to its request that the tech company fully restore the name Gulf of Mexico to its Google Maps service before filing a lawsuit.

On the News from Google X account, the company responded to the order, saying they had received questions about how they would handle the changes.

Google Maps is heading down a new road steered by artificial intelligence.

Monday's total solar eclipse might become one of the year's most filmed and photographed events.

The family of a North Carolina man who died after driving his car off a collapsed bridge while following Google Maps directions is suing the technology giant for negligence.

No known suspects and no motive: that’s what we know so far after an 83-year-old man was found shot dead in his Sharpstown home on Tuesday.

Houston has its share of modern-day crimes that we’ll always remember, but if you reach back into so-called simpler times, the same bizarre cruelty surfaces, from a child torturer in the Heights to a serial killer dumping women onto a desolate League City field. It tragically really happened here.

If you have ever dreamed of owning a murder's refurbished home, now is your chance.

An Air Force base in San Antonio was placed on lockdown for about an hour after military officials said gunfire was reported near a gate to the base.

HOUSTON – Google Maps is tracking coronavirus cases and has rolled out a new feature that it says lets people see the number of COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people for any given area with a label indicating whether cases are trending up or down. Google said in a blog post that the feature will roll out this week on Android and iOS systems. How Harris County appears with the Google Maps feature turned on, in this screen shot of an iPhone on Sept. 25, 2020. The information on the map indicates the number of new cases per 100,000 people on a 7-day average from these data sources: Wikipedia, The New York Times, Johns Hopkins University CSSE COVID-19 Data and Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. In the blog post, Google says the information is from “multiple authoritative sources,” including Johns Hopkins, the World Health Organization, health agencies, hospitals, the New York Times, and Wikipedia.

Google Maps has launched new features to help users safely get around during the coronavirus pandemic. "COVID-19 has certainly impacted the way that we move around in the world," Google Maps product management director Ramesh Nagarajan said in a news release in June. To assist travelers, Google Maps is collecting data from local and national agencies and governments and alerting users to pertinent information. Transit alerts are rolling out in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Colombia, France, India, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, Thailand, the United Kingdom and the US. In 2019 Google Maps introduced crowdedness predictions for public transit using millions of contributions from riders to show people how crowded bus lines or trains are.